Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His Life

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Página xii ... the pulpit, which are almost necessarily miscellaneous and unconnected, I
formed, and have carried into execution, a pretty extensive plan of Religious
Instruction, advancing, in a regular progress, from infancy to years of perfect
manhood.

Página xix ... possibility of discussing subjects mutually considered as of the greatest
importance, with the most perfect good temper and without the least diminution of
friendship.” About this time, also, he carried on a discussion in an equally friendly
tone ...

Página xxi ... obnoxious to the party in power, who saw every thing to fear and abhor. At the
same time the Dissenters were strenuously exerting themselves to extort from
Parliament an acknowledgment of their rights and a restoration to perfect
religious ...

Página xxvii ... we went to Dudley, and thence to my son-in-law's, Mr. Finch, at Heath-Forge,
five miles farther, where we arrived before breakfast, and brought the first news of
our disaster. Here I thought myself perfectly safe, and imagining that when the ...

Página lv I never before could conceive how satisfactory it is to have the feeling that I now
have, from a sense of perfect security and liberty, all men having equal rights and
privileges, and speaking and acting as if they were sensible of it. Here are no ...

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Página 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

Página 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!

Página 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.

Página 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.